Dr. Bruno Gagnon is a physician specialized in palliative care and an associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Laval University School of Medicine, and a clinician at the palliative care unit at Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Also, he is a researcher with the Réseau Québécois de recherche en Soins PALliatifs et de fin de vie (RQSPAL) and the Équipe de Recherche Michel-Sarrazin en Oncologie psychosociale et Soins palliatifs (ERMOS).

His researches focus on healthcare, delirium, and cognitive loss in patients with advanced cancer, classification of pain related to cancer, the role of methadone and other NMDA receptor antagonist in the treatment of neuropathic pain, end of life care, administrative data, anorexia-cachexia, and clinical trials in palliative care.

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Daeninck P, Gagnon B, Gallagher R, Henderson JD, Shir Y, Zimmermann C, Lapointe B

Canadian recommendations for the management of breakthrough cancer pain

Journal Article

Curr Oncol, 23 (2), 2016.

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Aburub AS, Gagnon B, Rodriguez AM, Mayo NE

Agreement between personally generated areas of quality of life concern and standard outcome measures in people with advanced cancer

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Support Care Cancer, 24 (9), 2016.

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Aburub AS, Gagnon B, Rodriguez AM, Mayo NE

Using a personalized measure (Patient Generated Index (PGI)) to identify what matters to people with cancer

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Support Care Cancer, 24 (1), 2016.

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Penafuerte CA, Gagnon B, Sirois J, Murphy J, MacDonald N, Tremblay ML

Identification of neutrophil-derived proteases and angiotensin II as biomarkers of cancer cachexia

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Br J Cancer, 114 (6), 2016.

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Arcuri GG, Palladini L, Dumas G, Lemoignan J, Gagnon B

Exploring the measurement properties of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a population of people with cancer

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Support Care Cancer, 23 (9), 2015.

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Gagnon B, Dumont S, Nadeau L, Scott S, MacDonald N, Aubin M, Mayo N

The Association Between Home Palliative Care Services and Quality of End-of-Life Care Indicators in the Province of Québec

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J Pain Symptom Manage, 50 (1), 2015.

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Gagnon B, Scott S, Nadeau L, Lawlor PG

Patterns of community-based opioid prescriptions in people dying of cancer

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J Pain Symptom Manage, 49 (1), 2015.

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Gagnon B

Palliative day-care centers and day hospitals

Book Chapter

Bruera E, Higginson I, Von Gunten CF, Morita T (Ed.): Textbook of palliative medicine and supportive care, pp. 293–303, Boca Raton, CRC Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781444135251.

Bush SH, Bruera E, Lawlor PG, Kanji S, Davis DH, Agar M, Wright D, Hartwick M, Currow DC, Gagnon B, Simon J, Pereira JL

Clinical practice guidelines for delirium management: potential application in palliative care

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J Pain Symptom Manage, 48 (2), 2014.

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Lawlor PG, Davis DH, Ansari M, Hosie A, Kanji S, Momoli F, Bush SH, Watanabe S, Currow DC, Gagnon B, Agar M, Bruera E, Meagher D, de Rooij SE, Adamis D, Caraceni A, Marchington K, Stewart DJ

An analytical framework for delirium research in palliative care settings: integrated epidemiologic, clinician-researcher, and knowledge user perspectives

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J Pain Symptom Manage, 48 (2), 2014.

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Active projects

  • Age-related patterns in the experience of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, from 2019-10-01 to 2024-09-30
  • Institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux., from 2014-04-01 to 2023-03-31
  • Pan-Canadian Palliative Care Research Collaborative, from 2021-06-30 to 2026-03-31
  • Volet québécois d’un registre national de soins palliatifs pour les patients atteints de la COVID-19, from 2020-10-01 to 2023-03-31

Recently finished projects

  • Interdisciplinary team in Early Functional Optimization (InTEFO): introducing a new optimization clinic to improve accessibility and efficiency of quality palliative care in advanced cancer patients., from 2014-02-01 to 2022-01-31
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